EU national entering in USA with a single vaccination shot

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Current (October 2021) policy from https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/destinations/traveler/none/united-states:

There are no vaccination requirements for visitors to the United States.

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Although the rules for who exactly will be allowed to enter the US when the covid policy changes have not been finalized yet, the CDC has today published some interim guidance on interpretation of vaccine records, which seems likely to be very close to the eventual regulations. This guidance states that

[P]eople are considered fully vaccinated:

  • 2 weeks after their second dose in a 2-dose series, such as the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines, or
  • 2 weeks after a single-dose vaccine, such as Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen vaccine

The guidance then goes on to say that other WHO-approved vaccines, such as AstraZeneca/Oxford, are also covered under this guidance, and to provide advice for interpreting vaccination records of people who received doses of two different types of vaccine.

There is, however, no exemption mentioned for recovered people to receive only one dose of a vaccine deigned to be given as a two-dose series. Therefore, while nothing is written in stone yet, it does not seem likely that your friend will be able to enter the United States with their current documentation.

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